This case explores PepsiCo’s enterprise-wide artificial intelligence (AI) transformation, highlighting how the company built a strong digital foundation and scaled AI across marketing, supply chain, finance, and governance. Beginning with a global cloud and data modernization effort, PepsiCo established the infrastructure and governance needed to treat data as a strategic asset. It then applied AI to drive consumer insights (via Pepviz?), hyper-personalized .....more

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In 2022, Doja Cat walked the red carpet for the sixty-fourth annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, wearing a blinged-out JBL speaker as her only accessory. Chris Epple, vice president of marketing in the lifestyle division of JBL’s parent company, Harman International Industries Inc. (Harman), had realized a huge win with the Doja Cat collaboration. A year after the Grammy Awards, in March 2023, Epple contemplated what was next. He knew this .....more

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MedfirstIndia Trading Private Limited was a privately owned e-commerce start-up in India. The firm’s goal was to establish a first-of-its-kind medical devices e-commerce platform catering to various underserved market segments, such as small hospitals and independent medical practices. The firm relied primarily on digital channels for branding and customer outreach. However, the founders did not have a structured data-driven decision-making strategy .....more

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Hopeworks Camden (Hopeworks), a small non-profit organization based in Camden, New Jersey, with a $4.7 million annual budget in 2022, was looking ahead to 2024. It was mid-July 2023, and the board of directors tasked Don Rhoton, Hopeworks’ chief executive officer, and Onome Pela-Emore, their chief operating officer, to develop an expansion plan that is financially viable and increases their geographic reach, beginning as early as the second quarter .....more

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Jason Kelce, an NFL player and athlete recognized around the world, had built a strong personal brand over the course of his career. He had reinvented himself and worked hard at honing his own personal branding, successively building a successful platform for each venture and staying forward-looking about his future after retiring from football. By 2023, Kelce was at a crossroads. He was not quite ready to hang up his Philadelphia Eagles jersey, and .....more